Edmund von Neusser (1 December 1852 Swoszowice – 30 July 1912, Bad Fischau) was an Austrian internist of Polish origin.
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He studied medicine in Kraków and Vienna, earning his medical doctorate in 1877. At the University of Vienna, he was a student of epidemiologist Anton Drasche.[1] Beginning in 1880, he spent several years as an assistant to Heinrich von Bamberger in Vienna,[2] afterwards being named primary physician at the Rudolfspital (1889). In 1893 he became a full professor and director of the second medical clinic in Vienna.[3]
He specialized in disorders of the blood, circulatory system, liver and adrenal glands,[3] and was considered an excellent diagnostician. In 1892, the Neusserplatz in Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus (15th District of Vienna) was named in his honor,[4] and in 1905 he was elevated to Austrian nobility.[5]
Associated term
edit- Neusser granules: Tiny basophilic granules sometimes observed in an indistinct zone about the nucleus of a leukocyte.[6]
Selected works
edit- Pellagra in Österreich und Rumänien, 1887 - Pellagra in Austria and Romania.
- Die Erkrankungen der Nebennieren, in: Spezielle Pathogie und Therapie, (Hg.) H. Nothnagel, 1897 - Diseases of the adrenal glands.
- Die Gallensteine, in: Deutsche Klnik, Bd. 5, 105 - Gallstones.[5]
- Ausgewählte Kapitel der Klinischen Symptomatologie und Diagnostik, (four volumes); Three parts translated into English and published as "Clinical treatises on the symptomatology and diagnosis of disorders of respiration and circulation" (1907-1909).
References
edit- ^ Pagel: Biographisches Lexikon hervorragender Ärzte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. Berlin, Wien 1901, Sp. 1204. (biography)
- ^ Google Books The Medical Bulletin: A Monthly Journal of Medicine and Surgery, Volume 15
- ^ a b Gelehrte in Stein und Bronze: die Denkmäler im Arkadenhof der Universität Wien (short biography in German)
- ^ Statement based on translated text from an equivalent article at the German Wikipedia.
- ^ a b Austria Forum (biography)
- ^ The Free Dictionary Neisser granules